Several years ago, old-time tech blog Slashdot started a subscription service. Rather than pay a monthly subscription fee, the site lets you pay $5 to load 1,000 pages ad-free and get a few other small bonuses. I've given Slashdot a total of $25 over several years to cover the cost of my subscriptions. Facebook users by and large don't click on the site's ads. With its low CPM rates, Facebook doesn't make much money on me — but the bottom-of-the-barrel ads grate on my eyes. Zuck, let's save us both the trouble. Let me pay some small amount, maybe $20 a year, to remove every ad and "sponsored post" in my News Feed.

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